Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 11, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs11242884
Keywords
canopy layers; cardinal directions; spectral reflectance; leaf traits; NDVI; PRI; SLA; silver birch
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Funding
- BETUMICS project [284931]
- European Union - Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes) [70005/13]
- Juho and Lempi Pitkanen Fund [69247]
- Niemi Foundation [20170014, 20180031]
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The availability of light within the tree canopy affects various leaf traits and leaf reflectance. We determined the leaf reflectance variation from 400 nm to 2500 nm among three canopy layers and cardinal directions of three genetically identical cloned silver birches growing at the same common garden site. The variation in the canopy layer was evident in the principal component analysis (PCA), and the influential wavelengths responsible for variation were identified using the variable importance in projection (VIP) based on partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). Leaf traits, such as chlorophyll, nitrogen, dry weight, and specific leaf area (SLA), also showed significant variation among the canopy layers. We found a shift in the red edge inflection point (REIP) for the canopy layers. The canopy layers contribute to the variability in the reflectance indices. We conclude that the largest variation was among the canopy layers, whereas the differences among individual trees to the leaf reflectance were relatively small. This implies that within-tree variation due to the canopy layer should be taken into account in the estimation of intraspecific variation in the canopy reflectance.
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